Daily Rant:
4/7/08
The Day Bambi Died
By Gelian
This is not really a
rant… just a funny that happened while Storm and I were running our alts,
Shalaan and Tunnelwalker.
We were running some
quests in Blade’s Edge (the one where you have to collect clothing scraps
for a disguise, outside of Evergrove) and killing the dragoncult hunters or
whatever they’re called. Things were going nicely, partly because I’d
discovered I could one- or two-hit the little dragons the hunters had as
pets, and we were collecting the scraps we needed when we set our sights on
another hunter and pet. I planned to target the pet while Storm was
targeting the hunter. He asked if I was ready, I said “go”, he charged the
hunter and I let loose with a lightning bolt on the pet… except I hadn’t
targeted the pet at all but a poor helpless deer wandering around behind the
pet. BANG… deer drops dead. Storm says, “What the hell… ?” and I scream,
“Oh no… I’ve killed Bambi!” We both start laughing so hard we almost forget
to finish off the hunter and pet. For the rest of that day, anytime one of
us made a targeting mistake (or *any* mistake, for that matter), we’d yell,
“I killed Bambi!” and then crack up laughing again.
So now, anytime you hear
one of us say, “Oh no… I killed Bambi!”, you’ll know what we’re talking
about.
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Daily Rant:
2/21/08
Annoying Pallys
By Gelian
I was
doing an Alterac Valley battleground today when I had what I would
call a very frustrating experience with some “Annoying Pallys.”
I was running my rogue and had
stopped at Ice Blood Tower, as I usually do, to
help take the flag and defend it until it capped. I’m getting the
flag when a dwarf paladin joins me inside the tower. My health is
at about half since I got dinged on the way up the tower so I was
rather hoping the pally would heal me up so we could start taking
out the npc’s around the outside of the tower… no such luck. I
bandage myself and start beating on the npc’s. (Keep in mind rogues
wear only leather armor, whereas pallys are in plate.) The pally
remains inside the tower while I beat down two of them and I start
thinking, “A little help here would be good!” He finally comes out
as I’m working on the third npc but does he start beating on them?
No. He heals… not me but himself. I’m beginning to grind my teeth
a bit by this time.
I
finally get some help from a second pally who joins in just as I’m
starting on the last of the npc’s on the tower. We finish that and
get back to the flag to stand guard just as two or three horde
players come up to try to take the flag back. The two pallys are
pretty much just running in circles while I’m trying to beat down
the horde players. I’m sure they must have gotten in a few hits but
I didn’t see much of that because I wind up dead on the floor of the
tower.
Instead of releasing, I stay and see
that the two pallys did manage to beat off the horde players. I
figure, “Great, one of them will resurrect me and I won’t have to
work my way back from Dun Baldar.” I wait a minute… nothing. I
type in, “Could I get a rez in IBT, plz?” hoping one of the two
would notice me there, under their feet, and rez me. I wait some
more… still nothing. I say again, “Hello… Katti here in IBT. Could
I get a rez??” Still nothing. FINALLY, after almost three minutes
of waiting, one of the pallys sees me and starts to rez me… just as
the tower goes up in flames. I come back with almost Zero health
and am faced with the choice of immediately dying from the fire
damage or dying from jumping out of the tower. I jump and die
before I hit the ground.
Any wonder I call them those
“Annoying Pallys”?
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